- Family: Urticaceae Juss.
Boehmeria Jacq.
[FTEA]
Urticaceae, I. Friis University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1989
- Morphology General Habit
- Small trees or shrubs, sometimes woody-based herbaceous perennials, monoecious or dioecious, usually ± pubescent
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate or opposite, equal- or unequal-sided, dentate, sometimes lobed; stipules free, lateral or ± connate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences cymose or racemose, with nearly always unisexual clusters of flowers, sessile along the axes of the inflorescence, bracts small, deciduous
- sex Male
- Male flowers (3–)4(–5)-merous; rudimentary ovary present
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Female flowers with tubular perianth, often contracted at apex, with 2–4 teeth, enclosing the ovary, of which only the filiform, persistent stigma protrudes Male flowers (3–)4(–5)-merous; rudimentary ovary present
- sex Female
- Female flowers with tubular perianth, often contracted at apex, with 2–4 teeth, enclosing the ovary, of which only the filiform, persistent stigma protrudes
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achene enclosed in the persistent membranous perianth.
[FZ]
Urticaceae, I. Friis. Flora Zambesiaca 9:6. 1991
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs or small trees, sometimes woody-based herbaceous perennials, monoecious or dioecious, usually ± pubescent, stinging hairs absent.
- Morphology General Cystoliths
- Cystoliths dot-like.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate or opposite, petiolate, lamina triplinerved, equal- or unequal-sided, dentate sometimes lobed; stipules lateral, free or ± connate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences axillary, usually spike-like, with the flowers gathered in unisexual glomerules along the inflorescence axis (rarely sessile and globular); bracts small, deciduous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Female flowers with tubular perianths, constricted and 2–4-toothed at the apices, completely enclosing the ovaries. Style filiform, not articulated, with a one-sided filiform stigma. Male flowers (3)4(5)-merous with membranaceous tepals, rudimentary ovaries present or absent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Achene completely enclosed in and partly adnate to the persistent perianth.
Native to:
Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Connecticut, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Iowa, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Kenya, Korea, Kuril Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Maine, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuria, Marquesas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Brunswick, New Guinea, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, North Carolina, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Carolina, South Dakota, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Virginia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
California, France, Norfolk Is., Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan
- Boehmeria aspera Wedd.
- Boehmeria balslevii Friis & Wilmot-Dear
- Boehmeria beyeri C.B.Rob.
- Boehmeria brevirostris Wedd.
- Boehmeria bullata Kunth
- Boehmeria burgeriana Wilmot-Dear, Friis & Kravtsova
- Boehmeria caudata Sw.
- Boehmeria celtidifolia Kunth
- Boehmeria clidemioides Miq.
- Boehmeria conica C.J.Chen, Wilmot-Dear & Friis
- Boehmeria cylindrica (L.) Sw.
- Boehmeria densiflora Hook. & Arn.
- Boehmeria depauperata Wedd.
- Boehmeria didymogyne Wedd.
- Boehmeria × dura Satake
- Boehmeria × egregia Satake
- Boehmeria excelsa (Steud.) Wedd.
- Boehmeria grandis (Hook. & Arn.) A.Heller
- Boehmeria hamiltoniana Wedd.
- Boehmeria helferi Blume
- Boehmeria heterophylla Wedd.
- Boehmeria holosericea Blume
- Boehmeria japonica (L.f.) Miq.
- Boehmeria × kiusiana Satake
- Boehmeria kurzii Hook.f.
- Boehmeria lanceolata Ridl.
- Boehmeria leptostachya Friis & Wilmot-Dear
- Boehmeria listeri Friis & Wilmot-Dear
- Boehmeria manipurensis Friis & Wilmot-Dear
- Boehmeria marti Colla
- Boehmeria meifenggensis S.S.Ying
- Boehmeria multiflora C.B.Rob.
- Boehmeria nakashimae Yahara
- Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich.
- Boehmeria ourantha Miq.
- Boehmeria pavonii Wedd.
- Boehmeria penduliflora Wedd. ex D.G.Long
- Boehmeria pilosiuscula (Blume) Hassk.
- Boehmeria platanifolia (Franch. & Sav.) C.H.Wright
- Boehmeria polystachya Wedd.
- Boehmeria radiata Bürger
- Boehmeria ramiflora Jacq.
- Boehmeria repens (Griseb.) Wedd.
- Boehmeria rugosissima (Reinw. ex Blume) Miq.
- Boehmeria siamensis Craib
- Boehmeria sieboldiana Blume
- Boehmeria spicigera Spreng.
- Boehmeria splitgerbera Koidz.
- Boehmeria subintegra Friis & Wilmot-Dear
- Boehmeria ternifolia D.Don
- Boehmeria tsaratananensis Leandri
- Boehmeria ulmifolia Wedd.
- Boehmeria villosa C.B.Rob.
- Boehmeria virgata (G.Forst.) Guill.
- Boehmeria yaeyamensis Hatus.
- Boehmeria zollingeriana Wedd.
Boehmeria Jacq. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Wallich, N. [Cat. no. s.n.], Myanmar | K001132548 |
First published in Enum. Syst. Pl.: 9 (1760)
Accepted by
- Wilmot-Dear, C.M. & Friis, I. (2013). The Old World species of Boehmeria (Urticaceae), tribus Boehmerieae). A taxonomic revision Blumea 58: 85-216.
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 6, 2: 284.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Enum. Pl. Carib.: 9, 31 (1760).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- G.F.P. 2: 188 (1967)
- Engl. in E.& P. Pf. 3(1): 111(1888)
- G.P. 3: 387 (1880)
- Enum. Pl. Carib.: 9 & 31 (1760)
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